Chapter 1: The New Girl
Sorrow: A feeling of deep distress caused by loss,
disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others
"BOYS! Get up! School starts in 30 minutes!" Paul Blofis yelled from downstairs. Triton jumped off the top bunk, barely missing Percy's face. Percy groaned "Triton, I told you not to do that! You could squish my face one day!"
"Sorry!" Triton called from the bathroom down the hall. They both shared a room although Triton was 5 years older. Triton worked at the school with their step-dad, Paul, who was also an English teacher. Percy got up and put on a light gray v-neck, with black skinny jeans and dark blue converse. Percy loved his converse. They were the last thing his dad gave him before he died in a plane crash.
He still had nightmares about his dad dying. He would see him clinging to his chair as the plane went down. Then before it would crash, everything would go black. His dream would shift to old memories of him and his dad that always made him wake up bawling his eyes out, yelling for his dad.
Back in reality, Percy galloped down the stairs to see his mom fixing Paul's bowtie. Both were wearing large grins on their faces, like teenagers in love. The sight made Percy smile. He was glad his mom found another good, nice, caring man. Then Percy realized that he wouldn't find a love like that. Who would like someone with messy black hair and ugly sea-green eyes, he thought, maybe that's Luke and his friends bully me.
"Good morning, Percy. Would you like some breakfast before you leave?" His mom, Sally, asked. "Sorry, Sally. We have to get going or we're all going to be late." Paul said. "Come on, Triton!" Paul and Percy yelled out simultaneously. Sally chuckled at their antics. Triton came running down the stairs and sprinted out the door yelling "BYE!" in his navy blue suit and red tie. Paul pecked Sally on the cheek before following Triton in pursuit. Percy gave Sally a hug. "Try not to have another one. You haven't had one in a year and that's a really good milestone." She said pulling away from the hug.
"I'll try not to mom. Now we gotta go. Love you." Percy said walking out. He staring walking to the car with his green backpack and started thinking. Mom's been looking tired lately, he thought, wonder what's wrong? He secretly hoped his mom was pregnant because he'd always wanted to be an older brother. He stepped into the blue Prius and immediately Paul slammed the gas pedal. He muttered over and over again "We're gonna be late, we're gonna be late." Percy shut his eyes and took a nap to keep from worrying about crashing.
They ended up making it to school with 10 minutes to spare. Paul and Triton ran into the school to go get ready for class. What school do they go to you say? Well they go to Goode High School For Performing Arts, of course. Percy went to go look for his friends. He finally found them by the courtyard at the back of the school. He now had 6 minutes to spare. Percy wouldn't call his 3 friends weird but everyone else that knew their little clique thought they were. First there was Thalia. She was mean to their bullies and everyone else she felt uneasy about but other than that she was a great, funny, caring, friend. She had electric blue eyes and black hair. Then there was Nico. He was quiet but not shy. He was kind of a troublemaker like Percy. He was nice, funny, and had a major crush on Thalia. He had unnatural black irises and similar hair to Percy. And last but not least, Grover. He was a softy. He hated when people littered, chopped trees, and hurt animals. He had dark green eyes and curly red hair. They all stood up when they saw Percy.
"Perrrcyy!" Grover bleated. Percy swore he thought Grover was half goat, half human. He ran towards them and greeted them. "Hey, guys." Percy said. "Hey." They said back simultaneously. They stayed away from everyone for the rest of the 6 minutes, talking about where they're going to meet up for Christmas next week. The bell cut off everyone's conversation and ran inside like ants. Thankfully they didn't encounter anything with Luke because that would've been bad. They arrived music class 3 minutes early (10 minute passing period). Percy, Nico, Thalia all sing in that class but Grover played the reed pipes. He was really bad at it too and that was one of the many reasons he was bullied.
After the bell rang, Ms. Muse started going over their Christmas break project when all of a sudden the door sprang open. "oh gods" Percy muttered. At the door stood a tall blond girl who was slightly panting. Percy thought she was gorgeous. Especially her eyes. They were stormy gray and looked out of place but Percy thought they made her look even more beautiful. Wait, he thought, You don't even know who she is for Zeus' sake! She walked in awkwardly and stared at Percy like the way he was staring at her. Ms. Muse cleared her throat. "And who would you be?" The mysterious girl looked at the teacher and said "Oh! Um… I'm new here. And sorry I'm late." She said. "Well, welcome to Goode Ms. New Here! But I'm to sorry to say that you're going to have consequences for being," Ms. Muse looked at her watch. "12 minutes late. So your punishment will to either singing a song in front of everyone or detention for today." The blond girl gulped and said "I'll sing." She walked to the mini stage our classroom had and started playing the piano.
(Human By: Christina Perri)
I can hold my breath
I can bite my tongue
I can stay awake for days
If that's what you want
Be your number one
I can fake a smile
I can force a laugh
I can dance and play the part
If that's what you ask
Give you all I am
I can do it
I can do it
I can do it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human, yeah
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human, yeah
I'm only human
I'm only human
Just a little human
I can take so much
Until I've had enough
Cause I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
Cause I'm only human, yeah
When she finished singing, everybody started at her like she was the 8th wonder of the world. "Well, that was amazing. Now that we know you can sing, you can go sit. Anyway, back to the project…" All the boys pleaded with her to sit next to them while their girlfriends glared at them and her. Percy lost all hope of her sitting next to him and his friends and looked down at his shoes. He suddenly felt a presence appear next to him and he looked up to find blondie grinning at him and every guy in class glaring at him.
"Hi" She said with her angelic voice. "Hi" Percy replied. He was surprised his voice didn't crack. "I-I'm Percy Jackson" He spoke to soon. She just smiled at him and said "Annabeth Chase" She said. They shook hands and Percy swore he felt something as soon as their hands made contact. They pulled away and Percy felt his face grow hot.
Oh great, Percy thought, I think I'm falling in love.